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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Impresario in Political and Cultural Context
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2012
Summary
This new collection of essays on Richard Brinsley Sheridan brings the most important British playwright of the eighteenth century back to the forefront of literary and cultural studies of the era. While his pyrotechnic life as a romantic hero, playwright, Member of Parliament, and theatre manager has generated a number of recent biographies, it is Sheridan’s works—not just plays but also poetry and orations—that endure. These essays reclaim the legacy of the man of letters and partisan bon vivant who burst from obscurity to become a powerful cultural force in Georgian London. This collection covers the many lives of Sheridan, taking into account both his variegated career and the competing accounts of the man, as well as his early verse, which lays the foundation for his success as a playwright. Chapters are devoted to Sheridan’s theatre, and provide innovative readings of his most famous dramatic pieces: The Rivals, The Duenna, The School for Scandal, The Critic, and Pizarro. The volume also includes extensive discussion of the dramatic highs of Sheridan’s long political career, thus placing the playwright-politician firmly in the world in which performance and politics were inextricably entwined.
Contributors: Mita Choudhury, Jack E. DeRochi, Marianna D’Ezio, Daniel J. Ennis, Emily Friedman, Steven Gores, David Haley, Robert W. Jones, Daniel O’Quinn, Glynis Ridley, John Vance, David Francis Taylor
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-480-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-481-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
308
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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CONTENTS No access
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
INTRODUCTION No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 1. THE MANY LIVES OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN No access Pages 19 - 40
Chapter 2. SHERIDAN’S EARLY STYLE No access Pages 41 - 60
Chapter 3. THE LITERARY ORIGINS OF SIR LUCIUS O’TRIGGER No access Pages 61 - 82
Chapter 4. REFLECTIONS UPON MAINTAINING A COMPETITIVE EDGE No access Pages 83 - 104
